Mildenhall 2026

[CheCazzo]

3 hours ago, heathen52 said:

I would have thought that this applies to meetings throughout the UK, and if you really want to stretch a point the GP's seem to have mostly the same riders from meeting to meeting, try finding something else to moan about, or if you can't say something nice, then don't say anything at all.

Typical snowflake response. But if you can't offer any "nasty" constructive feedback then how can you improve on anything? My point is that I have been looking at these NORA meeting line ups for a while and it just seems to be the same non-contracted riders in every meeting. One week it will be a Rye House race jacket, the next it will be a Cradley. If you want to pay to watch that then fine that's your choice.  

[CheCazzo]

11 hours ago, SPEEDY69 said:

£25 to see the same bunch in the championship and premiership, your point is? 

Well at least you'll see a different 7 riders at the next meeting rather than the same away 7 you saw the other week in a Kent race jacket now wearing a Cradley one. 

[Tom Thumb]

Meeting report: 'Racing in the East' NORA British Pairs Championship - Mildenhall 25/7/26

The tightest of finishes (not without a dose of controversy) on Saturday 25th. July at Mildenhall Stadium saw the inaugural 'Racing in the East' NORA British Speedway Championship Pairs title go the way of the Kent Eagles, edging out Cradley in the Grand Final after a heavy crash involving Man of the Meeting, Seth Norman.

The 15-year-old Norman had a sensational run of victories beating the hugely-experienced Ben Morley, Alfie Bowtell and Simon Lambert in successive races to ensure the Heathens pairing finished level on points after the qualifying heats with the Eagles, setting up an exciting dénouement.

Sadly the Final was to end in painful disappointment for Norman though – crashing out on the third bend of the first lap, with the trailing Jack Kingston then running into the fallen teenager. The initial decision was to exclude Kingston much to the confusion of all watching on and a Speedway version of VAR (using footage recorded of the incident) was applied by the referee to correct his earlier mistaken interpretation of the crash.  That effectively ended the Black Country side’s chances of a surprise victory and Norman himself ended the night in hospital with a nasty abrasion and back injury.

Third place went the way of the Wisbech Cross Keys duo of Mickie Simpson and Sam Woods – the European Grasstrack Finalist Simpson delivering a hat trick of race wins himself, including one terrific scrap with the home pairing’s number one, Bowtell.

Young Aussie World Women’s Championship number four, Tayla Street showed well from the gate in a number of her rides but was caught out by a track she’d never seen before and so was unable to contribute points to add to her partner Lambert’s individual haul of 13.

The crowd were also entertained (and responded very enthusiastically to) the awesome sight of the two 1000cc Right Hand Sidecar Speedway bikes piloted by the country’s two leading exponents of this comeback formula, Paul Whitelam and Will Penfold.

 Next up for the Mildenhall Fen Tigers is on Saturday August 15th. with Kent Eagles visiting West Row, this time as a full team in the second leg of the major NORA League competition of 2026, the Pioneer Cup.

 Meeting scores:

 Kent Eagles     19
Ben Morley      3  2 2  3  3         13
Jack Kingston  2  1 0  2  1        6

 Cradley Heathens      19
Luke Harris     3  2 1  2  1         9
Seth Norman  1  0 3  3  3        10

 Wisbech Cross Keys 15
Mickie Simpson  FX  3 3  2  3   11
Sam Woods       1 1  0  1  1         4

Mildenhall Fen Tigers   15
Alfie Bowtell   3  3 2  1  0         9
Harry Sadler   1  2 1  0  2         6

Anglian Angels             13
Simon Lambert   2  3 3  3  2    13
Tayla Street           0 0  FX  0 0     0

 Ipswich Academy       9
Ashton Vale    2  1 2  1  2           8
Harrison Rogers  0  0 1  0  FX   1

Heat details:

Key: IA = Ipswich; CH = Cradley; MFT = Mildenhall; AA = Anglian Angels; KE = Kent Eagles; WCK = Wisbech)

1 Harris, Vale, Norman, Rogers 54.1 [IA 2 CH 4] 
2 Bowtell, Lambert, Sadler, Street 52.9 [MFT 4 AA 2]
3 (rerun) Morley, Kingston, Woods, Simpson (fell exc.) 53.9 [KE 5 WCK 1]
4 Bowtell, Sadler, Vale, Rogers 53.0 [MFT 9 IA 3]
5 Simpson, Harris, Woods, Norman 53.4 [WCK 5 CH 6]
6 Lambert, Morley, Kingston, Street 53.6 [AA 5 KE 8]
7 Simpson, Bowtell, Sadler, Woods (fell rem.) 53.3 [WCK 8 MFT 12]
8 (stpd – awarded) Lambert, Vale, Rogers, Street (fell exc.) no time [IA 6 AA 8]
9 Norman, Morley, Harris, Kingston 53.3 [CH 10 KE 10]
10 Lambert, Simpson, Woods, Street 53.6 [AA 11 WCK 11]
11 Morley, Kingston, Vale, Rogers 53.7 [KE 15 IA 7]
12 Norman, Harris, Bowtell, Sadler 53.7 [CH 15 MFT 13]
13 (stpd – awarded) Simpson, Vale, Woods, Rogers (fell exc.) no time [WCK 15 IA 9]
14 Norman, Lambert, Harris, Street 53.7 [CH 19 AA 13]
15 Morley, Sadler, Kingston, Bowtell 54.4 [MFT 15 KE 19]
Final: (rerun) Morley, Harris, Kingston, Norman (fell exc.) 54.2 [Kent win]

1000cc RH Sidecars
1 P. Whitelam/R. Webb; W.Penfold/R.Pay  56.5
2 P. Whitelam/R. Webb; W.Penfold/R.Pay  56.0
3 W.Penfold/R.Pay; P. Whitelam/R.Webb 56.7
4 P. Whitelam/R. Webb; W.Penfold/R.Pay  56.1